Re: VA Pics

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > BTW, before I do anything drastic, (like delete the partitions and start
> > from scratch)  How should this thing be partitioned?
> > We've got two 9GB disks.  I was planning on setting up mirroring on these
> > (printing out the software raid & boot raid howto's now).  I was thinking
> > 500M for root, 128M for swap.  Not sure what to do with the rest 8+GB.  Do
> > we want one large partition, or do we want to split things up more???
> 
> Yeah... RAID1 looks pretty easy to set up.  I was looking over it just the
> other day as I'm getting ready to set up RAID-0 on my home box.  I think
> RAID-1 root (/) may be a little tricky but doable... let me know if you
> hit any pitfalls doing that and how it turns out.  

/ is going to be tricky, if the howto is any indication.  Now that I have
a 5.2 CD, things should be easier to reload.  :-)
 
> As far as partitioning... here's my recomendations (I.E. opinion):
> 
> /		384 MB - This is as big as I like to make root
> /var		512 MB - Plenty space for var and keeps logs trim
> /usr		2560MB - 2.5GB for plenty of src room
> /home		5120MB - Bulk of space as this is where most will live
> swap		128 MB
> unpartitioned	512 MB

Looks good to me.

> It's always good to leave some un-partitioned space in case we don't
> forsee a problem... if we need to break something out or expand a
> partition size it's a lot easier with a few hundred un-allocated megs.

Excellent point.  Though i wouldn't worry too much.  If we need more
disks, VA seems willing to give us more.

> Other (maybe obvious) suggestions:
> 
> No X on the box
> All possible devel tools (non-X)
> No lpr or printing installed
> etc. etc.

Sounds reasonable.

> Not sure what everyone's preferences are but here are some of mine:
> 
> Front-end process such as Apache, FTP, CVS, etc. reside in /home
> Backend such as MySQL and others reside in /usr/local...
> Although in this case we may want to have the data dirs under MySQL
> residing on /home somewhere with a soft link back to /usr/local/mysql/data

My suggestion is to keep it like it's currently setup on your box, unless
you're planning to change it.  Let's make a standard and keep with it.
 
> At any rate.  Let me know your thoughts on all that.
> 
> > I'm planning on RH 5.2 with the latest VAR "special" modular kernel
> > (2.0.36).
> 
> Sounds good.  RedHat all the way man.

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